Re: failure to create disk-image

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Roy,

Roy Lemmon <address@hidden> skribis:

> installing bootloader...
> Backtrace:
>            1 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/abqhniaagz11v7w8kz83ha1s6fc…")
> In ./gnu/build/vm.scm:
>     590:6  0 (initialize-hard-disk "/dev/vda" #:bootloader-package _ …)
>
> ./gnu/build/vm.scm:590:6: In procedure initialize-hard-disk:
> Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &message [message:
> "'/gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install
> --boot-directory /fs/boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory /fs/dev/vda'
> exited with status 1; output follows:\n\n
>  /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install:
> error:
> /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh
> doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory.\n"] 7fe479410240>)'.

I think the key issue here was GRUB failing to install itself.

Did you eventually find out wha was going wrong?

It looks like ‘grub-efi’ was chosen whereas the VM is actually “legacy
BIOS”, not EFI.

Thanks,
Ludo’.